The so-called West Sea refers to the Mediterranean Sea.
When the powerful Han Dynasty opened the Western Region, they saw the blue sea, which was Qinghai Lake. When they saw it, they did not think it was a lake. They directly thought it was a sea, the West Sea in the extreme west.
Later, the Han and Tang Dynasties continued to expand westward. After seeing the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea, the name of the West Sea also moved westward.
When the Turks were beaten away and rushed westward to the seaside, the name of the West Sea fell on the Mediterranean Sea again.
From the middle land to there, it is more than ten thousand miles away.
Li Yunze did not rush Zhu Gaosui and gave him enough time to think about it.
After all, traveling thousands of miles westward with your whole family far away from your familiar homeland is no small matter.
Li Yunze is still busy with the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and there are countless various things.
If he hadn't been preparing his army, training his soldiers, and stocking up a large amount of supplies, the civil servants would have believed that he no longer liked fighting.
Of course, the war still had to be fought, and Li Yunze was just making preparations before going out.
He didn't want to receive news of internal chaos during the expedition.
After careful consideration, Zhu Gaosui finally agreed to Li Yunze's suggestion and chose to take his whole family with him to the distant West Sea.
The relatives mentioned here are naturally not the clan, but the family of the father-in-law.
Coupled with the heavy financial rewards and the immigrants who wanted to start dividing hundreds of acres of land, the mighty and mighty fleets set off to the far west with the fleets that kept coming and going.
After sending Zhu Gaosui away, Li Yunze immediately ordered the complete recovery of military power from all the royal palaces, and gave them the opportunity to choose places far away from the town.
It was clearly stated that there was no need for vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty, and all vassal kings must live in distant lands.
For those who recognized them in advance, Li Yunze arranged for them to go to Nanyang.
If Momojiji doesn’t want to, then we can directly arrange to go to Australia and various large islands.
After arranging the clan, Li Yunze began to strengthen the suppression of civil servants.
Jinyiwei continued to expand again and again. He also set up the East Factory and the West Factory to strengthen intelligence monitoring capabilities.
As for all kinds of opposition, does Li Yunze care about this?
With the popularization of compulsory education, many new-age scholars with the title of disciples of the Emperor began to emerge.
Most of them could not enter the court and serve as officials or butchers, but they were assigned to various yamen, serving as subordinate officials, clerks, and even yamen tax collectors, etc.
Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty was not long ago, and the various places had not had time to solidify, Li Yunze continued to replace the dirty places with fresh blood.
And there is no longer any talk of hereditary inheritance.
Everyone has to go to school and pass exams to travel everywhere.
The biggest criterion is that it cannot be done in the local area.
As for the outstanding ones, they continued to enter the court and local yamen, and gradually compressed and occupied the power of the civil servants.
The knowledge monopoly held by civil servants is broken, which is the inevitable result.
Those children from poor families who were once considered unworthy to be citizens in the eyes of civil servants have changed their destiny by going to school.
Of course there are all kinds of iterations.
The counterattacks of the civil servants and the gentry behind them, and the newcomers who relied on education to get ahead, failed to resist the temptation.
These are all side effects and don't matter.
Li Yunze was very ruthless, with Jin Yiwei and Dongxi No. 2 Factory taking action, and they would just dig up the carrion when they encountered it. Anyway, there were so many substitutes waiting for him.
The entire Ming Dynasty's ecology has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Li Yunze didn't dare to say how well he did, but at least he tried his best.
In order to avoid the recurrence of the cluster of civil servants and gentry that defrauded the Ming Dynasty and the people like the late Ming Dynasty, he tried his best to suppress it.
During these days, there were naturally actions taken against him.
For example, when I was sick one time, the soup sent by the hospital contained chronic poisons.
There is also Wala, who has integrated the power of the grasslands in the north, received material and intelligence support from unknown sources, and continued to harass the Ming Dynasty southward, etc.
Li Yunze has never been merciful towards these things.
As the power of the gentry continued to weaken, Li Yunze finally proposed to abolish the tax exemption for scholars and promote the gentry to pay taxes as a whole.
Facing those civil servants and gentry who shouted "This is the teaching of our ancestors", Li Yunze wrote down them in a small book and then cleared them away.
Then, there was no more and no one dared to object again.
The Tartars' swords are sharp, but my sword is not bad at all!
After finally pushing the gentry who only cared about their own interests and did not care about their family and the world into the sewers, Li Yunze finally launched a military operation.
After a long period of preparation, Li Yunze has extremely sufficient material reserves in his hands.
All kinds of bad habits in the military have been swept away.
After a long period of rigorous training, the Ming army, which was well supplied and fully paid, had already greatly enhanced its combat effectiveness.
In addition, the military campaign in the south has come to an end, and even the Spice Islands and the Australian mainland have been included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, Li Yunze could finally mobilize his troops.
In August of the ninth year of Xuande, Li Yunze supervised the country as the prince, and Yu Qian assisted in managing the state affairs.
He personally led an army of 500,000 people and a larger number of civilians out of the pass and went north to conquer Mobei.
Everyone thought this was a military operation similar to Zhu Di's, just to attack Oara.
But in fact, Li Yunze wanted to fight all the way to the West Sea!
When the army left the fortress, the Oara people's choice was no different from that of the Tatars before. They all avoided the enemy completely and tried to attack the Ming army's logistics line.
But what they didn't know was that the Ming army was no longer the Ming army during Zhu Di's time.
With the successive bumper harvests of soybeans, the Ming army, which had a large amount of high-quality feed, was able to support a large and very elite cavalry regiment.
After leaving the fortress, this cavalry regiment did not even wait for the infantry. Under the personal leadership of Li Yunze, it went straight to the royal court of the Oara people.
Under the large-scale reconnaissance of drones, the so-called "avoidance" of the Wala people is a joke.
In the season when the autumn air was crisp and the horses were fat and the grass was growing, the terrifying cavalry group of the Ming Army suddenly arrived near the royal court of the Oara people, and completely destroyed the main force of the Oara people in one battle.
Even Ye Xian couldn't escape and was directly killed by the formation in his own royal court.
After that, the army divided up and began to sweep away the tribes everywhere.
The Han herdsmen, who had been mobilized early, took over the pastures and cattle and sheep of various tribes and began to thrive on this vast prairie.
The Ming army, which had achieved a brilliant victory, did not return to the DPRK.
Even though their victory was enough to leave a mark in the history books, Li Yunze sent his army westward and directly invaded the Western Regions.
As early as the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains had gradually lost the Western Regions.
Even the Hehuang Kaibian in the Northern Song Dynasty has already passed hundreds of years.
Until this time, Li Yunze finally led the Han family's cavalry to regain the Western Regions again.
There is no doubt that this will be a glorious victory that will go down in history books.
But Li Yunze still returned to the court without his teacher.
He mobilized civilians and some sergeants to station and settle down in various places in the Western Regions. He established prefectures and counties in Kaizhou and spent a year making local arrangements.
Afterwards, the army, which had lost half its weight, crossed the plateau and entered the two rivers.
They once again left behind civilian husbands and some sergeants, and immigrated from within the customs to settle here. Then they turned south and rushed directly into India.
With the cooperation of the fleet, we successfully captured this fertile land without spending much time and energy.
After all, the local fighting strength is really not worth mentioning.
It was still the same operation as before, leaving civilian husbands and sergeants behind and migrating the people from within the pass.
Afterwards, he took less than half of the remaining troops and horses and turned back to Lianghe, and then followed the route that the Mongols had taken, all the way west and then west.
After a long battle, we finally arrived at the edge of the West Sea.
Looking at the vast sea in front of him, Li Yunze's heart was filled with emotion.
Finally, finally here.
He met Zhu Gaosui who was waiting to greet him at the beach.
The uncle and nephew were sitting on the beach, having a drink and reminiscing about the glorious past.
We talked about Zhu Gaoxu again and said that he was living a very good life now. The fleets had sent nearly a million migrating people there one after another, sweeping across the entire land.
The locals didn't even know how to smelt iron. When they saw the Ming army with armor and guns, they were all shocked.
Zhu Gaoxu believed that the local people were all descendants of merchants, so he built the Great Shang Yunyun there.
Afterwards, Li Yunze went to see the dug Zhenxi Canal.
Seeing ships one after another passing through the canal, Li Yunze finally let go of his worries.
He has completely changed the destiny of Ming Dynasty in this world.
If he continues to follow the steps he set, Ming Dynasty will definitely reap the dividends of the Age of Discovery and raise the sun, moon, and dragon flags all over the world.
The territory is expanding, the population is increasing rapidly, and the level of science and technology is changing with each passing day.
The most important thing is that he completely broke up and crushed the civil servants and gentry who were ruining the world, and took away his backbone.
Standing on the shore of the West Sea, Li Yunze looked up to the sky and roared.
"I tried my best!!!"
There is no doubt that he did his best.
After helping Zhu Gaosui conduct a thorough sweep around the area, Li Yunze once again left behind a large number of civilian soldiers and returned to the main camp along the same route.
Clean up and stabilize the situation along the way. Return slowly all the way.
When he returned to his loyal Shuntian Mansion, this miraculous large-scale expedition could finally come to an end.
Most of the 500,000 troops and millions of civilians who went on the expedition have been stationed in the grasslands along the way, in the Western Regions, Two Rivers, India and the Western Sea.
They are seeds. As more and more immigrants migrate there, the Ming Dynasty a hundred years from now will be described as great.
As the emperor, he has done enough for the Ming Dynasty and done well enough.
It is completely worthy of the hard-earned money of the people of Ming Dynasty.
After paying homage to the imperial mausoleum, offering sacrifices to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, etc., Li Yunze felt empty in his heart.
Everything you need to do has been done, what should you do next?
Is it necessary to recuperate for a few more years and then launch another expedition, this time directly to Europa?
Li Yunze, who felt empty in his heart, called softly.
"system?"
'Here you are.' The system understood his thoughts very well and appeared again, 'You did a good job, Ming can be proud of you.'
'You can end your journey in this world at any time now and start the next legend!'